{"id":2554,"date":"2013-10-04T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T19:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2018-12-17T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:23:27","slug":"rayford-julian-lee-1908-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"RAYFORD, JULIAN LEE, 1908-1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sculptor; folk singer; author; journalist.\u00a0 Born April 7, 1908, Mobile.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; William Douglas and Julia Ogletree Rayford.\u00a0 Education&#8211; graduated Ensley-Howard High School, Birmingham, 1926;\u00a0attended Duke University for a year;\u00a0 studied art and sculpture with Gutzon Borglum, 1928-30. Worked as an artist in several media and continued to study with various artists, 1930&#8211;1941.\u00a0 Served\u00a0briefly in the US Army (received a medical discharge) and\u00a0afterwards did several kinds of war work: designed recruiting posters and camouflage materials; entertained soldiers with a singing-storytelling act.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Settled in Mobile, 1945; worked as a reporter and columnist for the Mobile Register and a book reviewer for Amateur Book Collector; worked as a painter and sculptor and a collector and performer of folk songs and stories. Published poems, articles, and stories in periodicals and anthologies.\u00a0 Active in the Mobile Mardi Gras tradition; founded the Joe Cain Marching Society, which parades on Shrove Tuesday each year. Died August 3, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin B. Williams, Introduction, Cottonmouth, Tuscaloosa; University of Alabama Press, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama Librarian, vol. 3.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ancient Doorways.\u00a0 Teufelsdrek Press, 1932.<\/p>\n<p>Child of the Snapping Turtle:\u00a0 Mike Fink.\u00a0 Abelard Press, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Cottonmouth.\u00a0 Scribners, 1941; Rpt. Tuscaloosa; University of Alabama Press, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The First Christmas Dinner.\u00a0 Rapier House, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Chasin&#8217; the Devil Round a Stump.\u00a0 1962.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whistlin&#8217; Woman and Crowin&#8217; Hen; The True Legend of Dauphin Island and the Atlantic Coast..\u00a0 Mobile; Rankin Press, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American People&#8217;s Encyclopedia. Chicago:\u00a0 Spencer Press, 1948. [Contributed entries on American folk heroes.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collections of Julian Lee Rayford&#8217;s papers are held by the Mobile Public Library and the Museum of the City of Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography;\u00a0 Sculptor; folk singer; author; journalist.\u00a0 Born April 7, 1908, Mobile.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; William Douglas and Julia Ogletree Rayford.\u00a0 Education&#8211; graduated Ensley-Howard High School, Birmingham, 1926;\u00a0attended Duke University for a year;\u00a0 studied art and sculpture with Gutzon Borglum, 1928-30. Worked as an artist in several media and continued to study with various artists, 1930&#8211;1941.\u00a0 Served\u00a0briefly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9152,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/9152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}